Damian?

[Tracy D'arth]

Opinion please.

 

Reading the latest boaters  from C&RT, does anyone think that Damian has ever had a canal boat?  Or even set foot on one? Has he been to a canal?

 

Is he real or a figment or C&RT's imagination?

[Alan de Enfield]

Duplicate posting

[Tracy D'arth]

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[ditchcrawler]

https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/boating/boating-blogs-and-features/the-boaters-update/boaters-update-19-june-2020?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=boating_2020

 

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

I have wondered about it meself. 
 

 

[ditchcrawler]

Why doesn't someone offer him a day onboard when we can start boating again

[Guest]

34 minutes ago, Tracy D'arth said:

Opinion please.

 

Reading the latest boaters  from C&RT, does anyone think that Damian has ever had a canal boat?  Or even set foot on one? Has he been to a canal?

 

Is he real or a figment or C&RT's imagination?

Anything specific in this edition? Or are we just having an anti-CRT roll call? 

[matty40s]

Wash your boat off regularly, dont take strange creatures anywhere else(unless your Uncle is in your bubble), just because the swimming pools are shut doesnt mean you should swim in the Walsall....and here is the Winter Closures consultation for you just in case the L&L, Richdake, HNC, Macc and Peak Forest, Watford Flight hasnt made you think its Winter already.

[Tracy D'arth]

Well, to be honest, just about all of it. Not just knocking C&RT.

 

Water shortage in the wettest winter on record, persistent rain this week.

Cleaning INNS of boats.

A list of closures so long that it seems unbelievable for the start of the boating season, according to C&RT.

 

TD'

 

 

 

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

10 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:

Why doesn't someone offer him a day onboard when we can start boating again

I’d be glad for him to come through Manchester with me. 
He can go down the weedhatch. 

[Jerra]

1 minute ago, Goliath said:

I’d be glad for him to come through Manchester with me. 
He can go down the weedhatch. 

Yes but will you let him up again?

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

8 minutes ago, Tracy D'arth said:

Well, to be honest, just about all of it. Not just knocking C&RT.

 

Water shortage in the wettest winter on record, persistent rain this week.

Cleaning INNS of boats.

A list of closures so long that it seems unbelievable for the start of the boating season, according to C&RT.

 

TD'

 

 

 

 And no mention about lack of water on the Rochdale west of Summit. 
 

[ditchcrawler]

And all this is Damion's fault

[matty40s]

 

[David Mack]

24 minutes ago, Tracy D'arth said:

 

Water shortage in the wettest winter on record, persistent rain this week.

 

 

That's unfair. CRT's Reservoir Watch shows that in Mid March reservoir levels were close to 100% over most of the country. But a wet winter was followed by one of the dryest springs on record, so it's no surprise levels are down a bit since March. I image the last week or two has helped, and with few boats on the move over the last couple of months, there won't have been nearly as much lock usage as in a normal year.

[Alan de Enfield]

1 hour ago, Tracy D'arth said:

??

Two identical posts 4 minutes apart,

[Tracy D'arth]

34 minutes ago, David Mack said:

 

 with few boats on the move over the last couple of months, there won't have been nearly as much lock usage as in a normal year.

Precisely my view, so why are we short of water? Is there a leak? You bet there is, just about everywhere.

[rgreg]

1 hour ago, Tracy D'arth said:

Well, to be honest, just about all of it. Not just knocking C&RT.

 

Water shortage in the wettest winter on record, persistent rain this week.

Cleaning INNS of boats.

A list of closures so long that it seems unbelievable for the start of the boating season, according to C&RT.

 

TD'

 

 

 

So are you saying if Damian did have a boat none of the above would relevant?

[Tracy D'arth]

6 minutes ago, rgreg said:

So are you saying if Damian did have a boat none of the above would relevant?

No, but his editorial may be more correct and relevant, not to mention truthful and factual.?

TD'

[rgreg]

2 minutes ago, Tracy D'arth said:

No, but his editorial may be more correct and relevant, not to mention truthful and factual.?

TD'

Perhaps I'm missing something but can't see what's not correct, relevant, truthful or factual. 

[Arthur Marshall]

You can't blame CRT for the Macc and Marple water shortages apart from the lack of maintenance on the reservoirs, so you can, really, but that history.

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

3 minutes ago, rgreg said:

So are you saying if Damian did have a boat none of the above would relevant?

It would help if Damian didn’t come across as a tad condescending. He writes likes he’s out on the sideline. From the armchair. A boater report should sound like the writer knows his stuff. 
Not just saying ‘nicey nicey’. 
 

[Alan de Enfield]

2 hours ago, Tracy D'arth said:

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[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

2 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

 

what you doing? 
are you replicating posts?

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[Jerra]

With regard to rainfall according to the met office winter (Dec Jan Feb) was overall 116% of the average rainfall.  Spring on the other hand was only 82% of average rainfall.

 

So 82+16=98%  (For those who don't understand my logic 16% is the extra rain added to Spring or to put it another way 116 +82=198)

 

So rainfall is near enough average but currently we are at the end of a long hot spell.